"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Leon Boellmann Cello Sonata – 1949 – ORTF, Paris – Another rarely performed composer this week, as performed by a then-rising-star Cellist, Jacques Ripoche and legendary pianist-teacher Jean-Jacques Painchaud in a broadcast recital recording made by French Radio in…
The Amazing Horace Silver this weekend. Recorded from the stage at Newport 1958 for the Voice Of America. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at school in Connecticut, Horace Silver got his break on piano when his trio was recruited…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony in Rehearsal – Richard Burgin, assoc. Cond. – Joseph Battista, piano – April 14, 1951. For this week’s rehearsal, Associate Conductor Richard Burgin leads the Boston Symphony in…
Over to Paris again this week for a performance of the Piano Concerto di Maggio op. 50 by Marcel Delannoy, with pianist Helène Pignari and Orchestre Maurice Hewitt, conducted by Maurice Hewitt. Delannoy’s music has fallen into some neglect since…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ahmad Jamal – I Hear a Rhapsody Ending up the week with a musical tribute to Tryptophan. A track from the legendary Jazz Pianist Ahmad Jamal, accompanied by a 15 piece string…